My sweet Daisy passed away yesterday.I wish I had been able to do more to help her. I thought I was doing the right thing by giving her the eyedrops and the tetracycline to control her respiratory and ocular symptoms..…

Remington is a VERY clean creature. I usually have him out and about for a few hours every night, and probably about 20% of the time he's busy doing this. Though looking at his tail I might want to help him out a bit wit…

Wherever groups of housepets are concerned, be they dogs, cats, rats, etc., there will always be an established pecking order. One of them will always be the alpha male (or alpha female) and The Boss of Everything, and o…

So I was getting ready to eat this candy cane when Daisy decided to investigate. She quickly decided that she much preferred the pistachios in the corner. :PMore Christmas-y gerbil/hamster goodness to come later!

From the very beginning Daisy has been a well-traveled gerbil. We made our very first trip less than a week after I adopted her and her sister--a three-hundred mile journey to the middle of Nowhere (literally) for a work…